Some random news.
I'm alive. Yes, I've been away from the blogosphere for quite a while, but that's because I've been frantically writing away to finish my new book. Which I just did – and only a week past my deadline. The other big news is that I have a new publisher. I'm now with Random House – which I'm very excited about (here's my new Random House bio here). Some of my favourite travel writers of all time are also with Random House including, Bill Bryson, Dave Gorman, Danny Wallace, Tony Hawks and Peter Moore. For those that don't know, my new yet-to-be-titled book is about my trip retracing the 1974 journey through South-East Asia of Lonely Planet founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler using their original South East Asia on a Shoestring guidebook as my only reference.
I don't have a title yet, although I do have a few that are being thrown around. Out of the titles that I've come up with so far, which one do you like (or do you have a better one for me!):
Following the Banana Pancake Trail
(travels with Lonely Planet's first guidebook)
Tripping out in South East Asia
(travels with Lonely Planet's first guidebook)
The Funkiest Funghi in South East Asia
(travels with Lonely Planet's first guidebook)
The Yellow Bible
(travels with Lonely Planet's first guidebook)
So, I'm back now and I'll be updating my blog a lot more regularly 
